1926 in television

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The year 1926 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1926.

## Global television events

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January | 26 | John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television system to transmit live, moving images with tone graduations, to 40 members of the Royal Institution. The 30-line images are scanned mechanically by a disk with a spiral of lenses at 12.5 images per second.
August | 18 | A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C.
December | 25 | Japanese researcher Kenjiro Takayanagi demonstrates a system that uses a mechanical Nipkow disk and a photoelectric tube in the transmitting device, and a cathode-ray tube in the receiving device. He transmits the 40-line still image of a Japanese character.[1]

## Births

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January 8 | Soupy Sales | U.S. comedian and actor (died 2009)
February 6 | Bob Trow | U.S. actor (died 1998)
February 20 | Whitney Blake | U.S. actress (Hazel) (died 2002)
March 1 | Robert Clary | French-U.S. actor (Hogan's Heroes) (died 2022)
March 16 | Jerry Lewis | U.S. comedian and actor (died 2017)
March 30 | Peter Marshall | Game show host (died 2024)
April 18 | Harold Hayes | U.S. broadcaster (died 1989)
April 22 | Charlotte Rae | U.S. actress (The Facts of Life) (died 2018)
April 30 | Cloris Leachman | U.S. actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Phyllis, Raising Hope) (died 2021)
May 5 | Ann B. Davis | U.S. actress (The Brady Bunch) (died 2014)
May 8 | Sir David Attenborough | British naturalist, documentary-maker and television executive
Don Rickles | U.S. comedian and actor (died 2017)
May 25 | Claude Akins | Actor (died 1994)
May 26 | Regis Cordic | Actor (died 1999)
May 29 | Katie Boyle | Italian-born British television personality (Eurovision Song Contest) (died 2018)
June 1 | Andy Griffith | U.S. actor, producer (The Andy Griffith Show) (died 2012)
June 10 | Joe Negri | U.S. Jazz guitarist
June 28 | Mel Brooks | U.S. comedy writer, actor, director, producer (Get Smart)
July 10 | Fred Gwynne | U.S. actor (Car 54, Where Are You?, The Munsters) (died 1993)
October 11 | Earle Hyman | U.S. actor (The Cosby Show, ThunderCats) (died 2017)
October 17 | Julie Adams | U.S. actress (Murder, She Wrote) (died 2019)
November 9 | Johnny Beattie | Scottish actor (died 2020)
November 13 | Jim Jensen | U.S. anchor (died 1999)
November 25 | Jeffrey Hunter | U.S. actor (Temple Houston, Star Trek) (died 1969)
November 30 | Richard Crenna | U.S. actor (died 2003)
December 1 | Keith Michell | actor (died 2015)
December 17 | Patrice Wymore | U.S. actress (died 2014)
December 19 | Herb Stempel | U.S. television game show contestant (died 2020)

## References

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1. ^ The Evolution of TV: A Brief History of TV Technology in Japan, Kenjiro Takayanagi: The Father of Japanese Television Archived January 1, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.

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